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THE TABLET A P V A l ly N ew spaper a n d R ev iew . I)U M VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTA.NTER MANEATIS. From the Brief oj H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870, Voi. 40. No. 1688. L o n d o n , A u g u s t 17, 1872. P r ic e 5d. B y P o st 5 % [R eg is tered a t th e G e n e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper. Page. C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k : Lord Russell on Public Business—and Local Legislation. — The Slave Trade and Dr. Livingstone.— The Pontefract Election.— The Geneva Arbitration. — The Roman Elections.— The Meeting o f the Emperors.— The Persecution of the Jesuits.— The Jesuits at Mainz.— The Geneva Bishopric.— State Interference and Church Rights.— M. Thiers at Trouville. — The French Academy and the Christian Brothers.— Diplomatic Canards.— The Change o f Viziers.— The Emigration from Metz.—Dr. Pusey and th e Athanasian Creed.— Revolution in Peru.— The August Meteors . 193 CONTENTS L ea d e r s : Page. The Parliamentary Session . . 197 The Localization o f Catholic Asso­ ciations .................................. 197 By the 24th August. . . . 198 Constitution of the Catholic Uni­ S h ort N o t ic e s : Modern Theism.— Page Cattle, Sheep and Deer.—The Irish Ecclesiastical Record.-Catholicism or Ritualism .... 205 C orrespondence : versity . . . . . 199 T he A nglican M ovem ent : The Archbishop of York to Arch­ deacon Denison concerning the Athanasian Creed . . . 200 R e v iew s : Christian Art and Symbolism - . 201 Middlemarch .... 202 Thrown Together .... 203 Shaving Them ; or, The Adven­ tures of Three Yankees on the Continent of Europe . . 204 The Crisis Week .... 205 Protestant Orders .... 205 The London University and Catho­ lics ...... 206 The Lowestoft Mission . . 206 Pa r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary 206 R ome : Letter from Rome .... 208 The Roman Municipal Elections . 209 The Holy Father and the Order of S. Francis .... 209 Mgr. Nardi on the State o f Rome 209 _ Page. D io ce san N ew s : W estm in ster...................................... 210 Southwark ..... 210 Beverley. ..... 210 Hexham and Newcastle. . . 210 I r elan d : Letter from our Dublin Corre­ spondent ..... 210 Mr. Maguire’s Speech in the Ad­ journed Debate on Mr. Butt’s M o t i o n ...................................... 21 r F oreign N ews : France .................................................212 M em oranda : Religious. - Educational - Literary. — Scientific.— Fine Arts.— Legal. 212 G en e r a l N ew s . . .2 1 5 C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K . 5.0RD RUSSELL ON PUBLIC BUSINESS. T H E week is singularly barren o f events of interest. Lord Russell has thrown down a ball for theoretical politicians to play with in the shape o f a letter to the Times, to the writing o f which he has been moved by the stoppage o f business till the middle or end of July, the delay o f supply till August, the cost, uncertainty, and hazards of Private Bills, the loss o f health by the “ hard worked ” Ministers, the “ excellent ” Speaker, and other members. T h e remedies he proposes fall under two heads— (i.) Imperial Parliament— Parliamentary Business would have been a better heading-— and (2) Local Legislation, in other words modified Home Rule. Under the first head he proposes that the close of the financial year shall be moved on to the end of June. It was because Parliament took to meeting as late as February, and the previous year’s vote was thus exhausted before a fresh Supply could be voted, that the close o f the financial year was shifted from the 3 1st Dec. to the 31st March ; and Lord Russell argues, certainly not without a show of reason, that as the greater part of the supplies are now voted and even discussed long after the 31st of March, the time has come for again putting back the clock so as to bring the debates on Supply into the compass of the expiring financial year. Pie proposes therefore that the financial year should close on the 30th June instead o f on the 31st March, and that the Commons should devote February, March, and April to legislation, sending up the Bills to the Lords before the end of the latter month, and thus having the whole o f May and June ■ free for the Committee of Supply. It might not be a bad plan to divide the session into a period of legislation and a period of estimates, if the House could only be got to consent to it. Unfortunately the general feeling of private members is that they are already too much cribbed and confined by the barriers of standing orders. As to local legislation Lord Russell’s plan is — and local that the provincial assemblies should pass their l e g i s l a t i o n . a g far ag theCommittee and the report, leaving the third reading for the Imperial Parliament. H e proposes an Assembly for each o f the four provinces o f Ireland — a dodge by which we suppose it is intended to avoid genuine Home Rule— and one apiece for the Highlands and Lowlands o f Scotland. Fie says nothing, however, about Wales, which is quite as distinct a nationality as the Highlands— rather more so— nor about the Northern and Southern districts of England. “ The lazy and sluggish South” as Lord Salisbury called it the other day, might not perhaps care so very much, but the manufacturing and mining North would not be long before it put in a claim for the special N e w S e r i e s . V oi. V III. No. 197. representation granted to other parts of the kingdom. Canning once said, arguing against Parliamentary reform— “ reform Parliament ! repeal the Union ! restore the “ Heptarchy ! ” What he intended as a climax o f absurdity would, if Lord Russell had his way, come about as a logical sequence— as far at least as our legislative machinery is concerned. I f the Piets and the Scots— to speak rather incorrectly— are each to have their provincial Parliament, we cannot see why the Northumbrians or West Saxons are to be denied theirs. There is at least as much difference between the two English as between the two Scottish districts. THE SLAVE TRADE AND DR. LIVINGSTONE. We are informed in the Queen’s Speech that “ Government has taken steps intended to “ prepare the way for dealing more effectually ” with the East African slave trade, and the telegraph tells us that those steps consist of overtures to the French Government which have been suggested by Dr. Livingstone’s letters. The plan proposed by the great explorer himself, in a letter to Sir Bartle Frere, is that one o f the English settlements on the West Coast should be transferred to Mombas, which is ours already, or to some other healthy point, by a voluntary emigration of the natives. I f there should be any difficulty about a suitable arrondissement to the settlement, Sir B. Frere thinks that this might be easily arranged with the Sultan of Zanzibar, who will see that his true interests lie in putting down the trade. It seems, however, that under a settlement o f Lord Canning’s, by which Muscat was given to one brother, and Zanzibar to the other, the Sultan o f the last-named place has to pay an annual tribute to the former, and maintains that the export duty on slaves is necessary to enable him to pay the charge with which we have saddled him. I f so, we shall have to buy him off, and probably to maintain on the East Coast a force sufficient to suppress a traffic, the evils o f which extend, as Dr. Livingstone has shown, far wider than the unfortunate creatures who are actually kidnapped. Fresh arguments are continually coming in to prove the impossibility o f Dr. Livingstone’s geographical theory. The Bahr el Ghazal, or Petherick’s Nile, has been already disposed o f ; Dr. Livingtone admits that his Lualaba would have to run up hill to get into Tanganyika, and now Captain Grant points out that, up to the lakes, the Nile is perfectly well-known, and that no river falls into it from the west except one which rises in U ganda; and Dr. Beke clinches the matter by showing that if the Lualaba ran in the direction o f the Nile, it would have to cross another wellknown river which runs westwards from the mountains which flank the Albert Nyanza. Where then does Dr. Livingstone’s river go ? Is it after all the Congo ?

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THE TABLET

A P V A l ly N ew spaper a n d R ev iew .

I)U M VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTA.NTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief oj H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870,

Voi. 40. No. 1688. L o n d o n , A u g u s t 17, 1872.

P r ic e 5d. B y P o st 5 %

[R eg is tered a t th e G e n e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.

Page.

C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k : Lord

Russell on Public Business—and Local Legislation. — The Slave Trade and Dr. Livingstone.— The Pontefract Election.— The Geneva Arbitration. — The Roman Elections.— The Meeting o f the Emperors.— The Persecution of the Jesuits.— The Jesuits at Mainz.— The Geneva Bishopric.— State Interference and Church Rights.— M. Thiers at Trouville. — The French Academy and the Christian Brothers.— Diplomatic Canards.— The Change o f Viziers.— The Emigration from Metz.—Dr. Pusey and th e Athanasian Creed.— Revolution in Peru.— The August Meteors . 193

CONTENTS

L ea d e r s :

Page.

The Parliamentary Session . . 197 The Localization o f Catholic Asso­

ciations .................................. 197 By the 24th August. . . . 198 Constitution of the Catholic Uni­

S h ort N o t ic e s : Modern Theism.—

Page

Cattle, Sheep and Deer.—The Irish Ecclesiastical Record.-Catholicism or Ritualism .... 205 C orrespondence :

versity . . . . . 199 T he A nglican M ovem ent :

The Archbishop of York to Arch­

deacon Denison concerning the Athanasian Creed . . . 200 R e v iew s :

Christian Art and Symbolism - . 201 Middlemarch .... 202 Thrown Together .... 203 Shaving Them ; or, The Adven­

tures of Three Yankees on the Continent of Europe . . 204

The Crisis Week .... 205 Protestant Orders .... 205 The London University and Catho­

lics ...... 206 The Lowestoft Mission . . 206 Pa r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary 206 R ome :

Letter from Rome .... 208 The Roman Municipal Elections . 209 The Holy Father and the Order of

S. Francis .... 209 Mgr. Nardi on the State o f Rome 209

_

Page.

D io ce san N ew s : W estm in ster...................................... 210

Southwark ..... 210 Beverley. ..... 210 Hexham and Newcastle. . . 210 I r elan d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ..... 210 Mr. Maguire’s Speech in the Ad­

journed Debate on Mr. Butt’s M o t i o n ...................................... 21 r F oreign N ews :

France .................................................212 M em oranda :

Religious. - Educational - Literary.

— Scientific.— Fine Arts.— Legal. 212 G en e r a l N ew s . . .2 1 5

C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

5.0RD RUSSELL

ON PUBLIC BUSINESS. T

H E week is singularly barren o f events of interest. Lord Russell has thrown down a ball for theoretical politicians to play with in the shape o f a letter to the

Times, to the writing o f which he has been moved by the stoppage o f business till the middle or end of July, the delay o f supply till August, the cost, uncertainty, and hazards of Private Bills, the loss o f health by the “ hard worked ” Ministers, the “ excellent ” Speaker, and other members. T h e remedies he proposes fall under two heads— (i.) Imperial Parliament— Parliamentary Business would have been a better heading-— and (2) Local Legislation, in other words modified Home Rule. Under the first head he proposes that the close of the financial year shall be moved on to the end of June. It was because Parliament took to meeting as late as February, and the previous year’s vote was thus exhausted before a fresh Supply could be voted, that the close o f the financial year was shifted from the 3 1st Dec. to the 31st March ; and Lord Russell argues, certainly not without a show of reason, that as the greater part of the supplies are now voted and even discussed long after the 31st of March, the time has come for again putting back the clock so as to bring the debates on Supply into the compass of the expiring financial year. Pie proposes therefore that the financial year should close on the 30th June instead o f on the 31st March, and that the Commons should devote February, March, and April to legislation, sending up the Bills to the Lords before the end of the latter month, and thus having the whole o f May and June ■ free for the Committee of Supply. It might not be a bad plan to divide the session into a period of legislation and a period of estimates, if the House could only be got to consent to it. Unfortunately the general feeling of private members is that they are already too much cribbed and confined by the barriers of standing orders.

As to local legislation Lord Russell’s plan is

— and local that the provincial assemblies should pass their l e g i s l a t i o n . a g far ag theCommittee and the report, leaving the third reading for the Imperial Parliament. H e proposes an Assembly for each o f the four provinces o f Ireland — a dodge by which we suppose it is intended to avoid genuine Home Rule— and one apiece for the Highlands and Lowlands o f Scotland. Fie says nothing, however, about Wales, which is quite as distinct a nationality as the Highlands— rather more so— nor about the Northern and Southern districts of England. “ The lazy and sluggish South” as Lord Salisbury called it the other day, might not perhaps care so very much, but the manufacturing and mining North would not be long before it put in a claim for the special

N e w S e r i e s . V oi. V III. No. 197.

representation granted to other parts of the kingdom. Canning once said, arguing against Parliamentary reform— “ reform Parliament ! repeal the Union ! restore the “ Heptarchy ! ” What he intended as a climax o f absurdity would, if Lord Russell had his way, come about as a logical sequence— as far at least as our legislative machinery is concerned. I f the Piets and the Scots— to speak rather incorrectly— are each to have their provincial Parliament, we cannot see why the Northumbrians or West Saxons are to be denied theirs. There is at least as much difference between the two English as between the two Scottish districts.

THE SLAVE TRADE

AND DR. LIVINGSTONE.

We are informed in the Queen’s Speech that “ Government has taken steps intended to “ prepare the way for dealing more effectually ” with the East African slave trade, and the telegraph tells us that those steps consist of overtures to the French Government which have been suggested by Dr. Livingstone’s letters. The plan proposed by the great explorer himself, in a letter to Sir Bartle Frere, is that one o f the English settlements on the West Coast should be transferred to Mombas, which is ours already, or to some other healthy point, by a voluntary emigration of the natives. I f there should be any difficulty about a suitable arrondissement to the settlement, Sir B. Frere thinks that this might be easily arranged with the Sultan of Zanzibar, who will see that his true interests lie in putting down the trade. It seems, however, that under a settlement o f Lord Canning’s, by which Muscat was given to one brother, and Zanzibar to the other, the Sultan o f the last-named place has to pay an annual tribute to the former, and maintains that the export duty on slaves is necessary to enable him to pay the charge with which we have saddled him. I f so, we shall have to buy him off, and probably to maintain on the East Coast a force sufficient to suppress a traffic, the evils o f which extend, as Dr. Livingstone has shown, far wider than the unfortunate creatures who are actually kidnapped. Fresh arguments are continually coming in to prove the impossibility o f Dr. Livingstone’s geographical theory. The Bahr el Ghazal, or Petherick’s Nile, has been already disposed o f ; Dr. Livingtone admits that his Lualaba would have to run up hill to get into Tanganyika, and now Captain Grant points out that, up to the lakes, the Nile is perfectly well-known, and that no river falls into it from the west except one which rises in U ganda; and Dr. Beke clinches the matter by showing that if the Lualaba ran in the direction o f the Nile, it would have to cross another wellknown river which runs westwards from the mountains which flank the Albert Nyanza. Where then does Dr. Livingstone’s river go ? Is it after all the Congo ?

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